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Wal-Mart: YOU'RE FIRED!!!
This story was in the KC Star this morning. Wal-Mart fired a brain damaged cashier who worked there for almost 20 years for discounting a jug of sweet tea for a customer by fifty cents. I hope he sues their ass off. Story is here:
Thousands of people are rallying behind a brain-damaged Walmart worker who was fired last week. Frank Swanson was a cashier at a Walmart in West Plains, Missouri for nearly two decades. He was well known in the local community as an enthusiastic worker who loved to hug customers. He was fired just 20 days short of his 20-year anniversary with Walmart. A Walmart spokesman said he was fired for violating a pricing policy. "Letting an associate go is never easy," the spokesman said. "For this associate, point-of-sale policies had not been followed in some instances. A recent violation of those policies moved the associate to the final step of our discipline process, resulting in his dismissal." Swanson's supporters claim he was terminated for giving out hugs, and they are planning a protest at the West Plains Walmart on Saturday to show their support. More than 1,500 people have committed to attending the rally on a Facebook page called "Hugs for Frank" and another 3,100 said they are interested in attending. "Walmart has decided to fire Frank, the sweetest employee you'd ever meet, for hugging a costumer," the page reads. "So we're going to gather at Walmart on Saturday April 9th with signs or t-shirts offering free hugs. Let's do this for Frank." The workers' rights group Making Change at Walmart also released a statement on the matter. "It appears Walmart fired workers for being decent and kind. So, if you believe in hugs or being nice to customers, don’t apply for a job at Walmart," said Jess Levin, communications director for MCAW. Swanson's bosses cited his hugs as inappropriate, but that's not why he was fired, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Swanson broke store policy on at least one occasion by discounting a jug of tea by 50 cents, after a customer told him a competitor was selling the tea for 50 cents cheaper,the Post-Dispatch reports. He took the customer at her word, but under store policy, he should have asked her to produce a printed circular proving the competitor's price. Swanson's sister, Babbi Marsh, confirmed that Swanson was terminated for excessive price matching. "He never let anyone walk out without paying for their merchandise. What he was told was that he was being let go for excessive price matching," she told the West Plains Daily Quill. Swanson suffered severe injuries including brain damage following an accident when he was young that left him in a coma for six weeks and temporarily paralyzed, his family told KSPR TV. Walmart customer Jenn Harper called Swanson a "sign of hope." "I feel like one of our own has been hurt," she told KSPR. "He's a sign of hope, he made your day better. If you were having a bad day at Walmart, he would light up your whole trip." http://www.businessinsider.com/walma...0-years-2016-4 |
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04-26-2016, 07:38 AM | #136 |
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shit, the bitches I see on Facebook reselling crap around here do it for like 90% retail. Which I don't get. Gee, sure let me drive all the way to your house to buy shampoo for 20 cents less than Dillons.
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04-26-2016, 07:40 AM | #137 |
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Got a FB "friend" that goes on those buy/sell/trade pages, buys stuff off of people, then 2 days later tries to sell it for more money than she paid for it. It's her "job".
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04-26-2016, 08:54 AM | #138 | |
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You may agree with Wal-Mart. Personally, I think the guy got a raw deal. But that doesn't make this story "Bullshit." Cognitive Dissonance spills over from the DC. Guess I should have posted this thread over there, as this thread is bound to get dragged in to that cesspool anyway. |
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04-26-2016, 10:28 AM | #139 |
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When you hold people's change until they give you a hug, it is sexual harassment. Read the whole story. And he just started doing this last thanksgiving. They try to make it sound like slow poke has been giving out hugs for almost 20 years... More like 6 months after 19 years of no hugs.
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04-26-2016, 11:18 AM | #141 |
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There's about 2 million lawyers who'd love to represent some woman who got hugged by this guy and didn't like it...field day...and then to go on and sue WalMart for letting such behavior to have continued so long...
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04-26-2016, 11:23 AM | #142 |
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In what way is it not? He's withholding something that is rightly theirs unless they give him physical affection. It's the definition of sexual harassment.
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04-26-2016, 12:08 PM | #143 |
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Yep...
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You are showing you just believe what ever your told and the legal system is your god. Something that is rightly theirs? What a bunch of made up junk that still doesn't mean sexual harassment. I don't want just anyone hugging me but that doesn't make it sexual harassnent just because I don't like it. What's next? Patting a chick on the knee or elbow is rape? |
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It's kind of creepy that he was only doing this to women, too. It would be kind of creepy if he did it to guys too, though, so I'm not sure which is creepier. Maybe he shouldn't have been hugging at all, and instead doing polite bowing.
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JFC you are dumb.
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